Methods: Test, Measurement and Instrumental Equipment

Production process and incoming goods:
  • reactivity measurement
  • viscosity measurement
  • breaking index
  • determination of volatiles

Final product
  • comprehensive application-orientated test
  • chemical and thermal analysis
  • impact resistance
  • gloss level
  • grammage
  • colour
  • residual styrene content (determination via gas chromatography)
  • thickness and layer thickness measurement
  • urface tension
  • climate test (weathering analysis via xenon test and outdoor weathering trails in Arizona, USA)
  • Verifying hardness (Barcol method)
  • determination of fire behaviour (flame impingement on the edges)
  • tensile strength
  • tensile e-modulus
  • 3 point flexural strength
  • 3 point e-modulus
  • linear expansion
  • light microscopy